Author Archives: Dr. Helga George

Until recently San Diego native Derek Coleman was working as a machinist in a factory. Today he finds himself in a field trauma center outside the city of Mosul in Iraq, one of today’s most active war zones. Speaking about …

Ohio just streamlined the procedures for administering drugs to patients and will allow nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to delegate medication administration in outpatient settings to unlicensed allied health professionals such as medical assistants. Senate Bill 110 was just passed …

Medical assistant students and professionals alike recognize the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) as a household name, as they should. The AAMA is easily the leading authority on education and certification for medical assistants in the country. So what …

Medical Assistant Recognition Week (MARWeek), which takes place each year in the third full week of October, was developed to honor the efforts of thousands of medical assistants across the United States. It is endorsed by the American Association of …

While medical assistants are an indispensable part of Western medicine, this appears to not be the case in China. China’s largest search engine, Baidu, announced in October 2016 that it had produced an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. The company named its …

The COVID-19 pandemic has gone through a strange pattern in the United States, surging to crisis levels in major urban centers like New York and New Orleans, then subsiding briefly before coming back hard and strong in more rural states …

Until recently San Diego native Derek Coleman was working as a machinist in a factory. Today he finds himself in a field trauma center outside the city of Mosul in Iraq, one of today’s most active war zones. Speaking about …